Thursday, 1 September 2016

"I curse you and your children's children, that you shall all live out your allotted years, and that those years shall be filled with grief and loss and betrayal, even as you have betrayed and bereaved me."

But in this case, the caster was vindictive enough to tantalise his victims with a spark of hope. In the best fairytale tradition, if certain conditions were fulfilled, the curse would be broken:

"When the one who reads the earth joins with he who sees beyond, when the warrior and the healer stand to swear a sacred bond, when the one who seeks in danger is sworn to the landless lord, then shall my curse be lifted and all the lands restored."

Some years ago, RJ Scott had an idea for a paranormal trilogy, each story to be written by a different author, and she invited Sue Brown and me to join her in writing The Fitzwarren Inheritance. "We need a curse," she said, and blinked innocently the way she does. I came up with the required malediction and its get-out clause, and those two passages formed the springboard for The Psychic's Tale by Chris Quinton, The Soldier's Tale by RJ Scott, and The Lord's Tale by Sue Brown. Each title is available as a single ebook, and also as a box set, The Fitzwarren Inheritance. All versions are available across the Amazon sites, and from All Romance eBooks.

I sort of fell in love with my two men - Mark Renfrew, closeted psychic and openly gay, and Jack Faulkner, archaeologist. So under the overall label of The Renfrew Files, I've written two standalone stories.

The Carpenter's Tale

It should have been a bit of a break for Mark Renfrew, attending an archaeological conference with his lover, Jack Faulkner. No ghosts, no drama beyond the academic. But it didn't work out that way. The modern Five Star hotel held a dark secret, and Mark knew he had to uncover it before more people were hurt.

Mark Renfrew is a researcher for a paranormal reality TV show, but no one involved with the show knows he is the real deal—a genuine psychic. When a cameraman encounters a ghost and needs his help, he has to come out of that particular closet. Along with his archaeologist lover, Jack Faulkner, Mark must find a way to break the ghostly cycle of injury and death on a haunted road, but things don't go according to plan. Mark discovers a new aspect to his psychic talent, and with another ghost to contend with, he is entering dangerous and uncharted waters.

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